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I have always loved reading since I can remember! In fact, since I grew up in a neighborhood with lots of kids that always came by my house to play, in order to stay in and read, my parents would tell my friends that I had been punished!
I taught elementary school for 14 years and have spent the last 10 years working with my husband. Now that I have more personal free time I am able to read more throughout the year and not just in the summertime.
I have a Kindle, a Nook and an Ipad2 that I use to read books as well. Although I have these electronic readers, I still like my books better!

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Download and print this cute bookmark. Click on the image and save it on your computer, when you print it, make sure you don't print it to fit the page so it will print in real size (2" by 7") Enjoy!

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Angie from Angels Are Kids and Furkids finished her second Chick-Lit book for the month of June and has sent a review of her second book to share with us! Below you will see her review or you can go directly to Angie's blog at: Angels are Kids and Furkids Enjoy!

"Bounty hunter Stephanie Pum is still learning the ropes at her cousin Vinnie's bail bond office, so when she sets out on the trail of Kenny Mancuso - a suspiciously weatlhy, working class Trenton boy who has just shot his best friend - the stakes are higher than ever. That Mancuso is distantly related to vice cop Joe Morelli - who is trying to beat Stephanie to the punch - only makes the hunt more thrilling...

Taking pointers from her bounty hunter pal, Ranger, and using her pistol packing Grandma Mazur as a decoy, Stephanie is soon closing in on her mark. But Morelli and his libido are worthy foes. And a more sinister kind of enemy has made his first move... and his next move might be Stephanie's last."My Review:Stephanie Plum is determined not to give up her new found job with her cousin Vinnie as a bounty hunter. She may still not be the best at it, but she makes good money at it….when she actually can catch the skipper of bail that is. In this second book in the series Stephanie is on the hunt for Kenny, a supposed “easy” retrieval for her. Well, Kenny turns out to be a little bit on the unstable side…ok a lot on the unstable side, and Stephanie decides to team up with Joe Morelli, the cop that she helped prove was innocent last time she was after a big name bail skipper, who is now back on the job. Theirs is a relationship of love and hate…she loves to hate him. Kenny turns out to be in more than just the shooting he was put in jail for in the first place. He is into smuggling military guns and lots of other illegal activity, so Stephanie gets to play detective again. Also she is working a side job for the funeral undertaker to find some missing caskets. Only odd thing is that these caskets are a little to plain for the people in the town they live in, so why did he buy them, and so many of them? Should she believe him when he says they have nothing to do with his best friend Kenny? Can Stephanie put up with Morelli again to catch Kenny? When she gets closer to finding out the truths she and her Grandmother, who loves “helping” Stephanie bounty hunt, are put in some very dangerous situations. Can they both make it to the capture of Kenny alive?This was a great continuation to the Stephanie Plum series. Again the author did a great job writing this book and building on the characters from the first book. I really think that Stephanie should give Joe a chance again and see if a relationship would work for them. Personally I don’t think it could be any worse than the many men her Mother and Grandmother keep inviting for dinner with the family so they can meet her. Joe’s a cop too, which is a huge perk for someone in the bounty hunting profession if you ask me. I have to say that I just loved the building up of Grandma Mazur’s character. What a card she is! She also reminds me of my own Grandmother with some of the things she will say or do. I also just love how she is so in to Stephanie’s bounty hunting job, that’s hilarious. What better than a bounty hunting Grandma!?! Lots of twists and turns in this book and lots of things happening, never a dull moment. It keeps right on trucking along and keeps the reader enthralled with all the action, adventure, and drama right up until the end. I have to say that I read this book so fast and was so into the book I got to the last pages and was surprised that I had read the whole book already.

1 comments:

I read the first in this series a long time ago. I really liked One for the Money and am not sure why I never continued. So, I recently purchased the first few books in the series and will be going back through the first. Thank you for your review. I can't wait to get started. Better late than never, right?